Jeremiah 49:28-33
“Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite.”
King James Version
'Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar... shall smite': the desert tribes — tents, flocks, camels — will be scattered and Hazor become 'a dwelling for dragons... for ever.' An oracle against nomads, naming their conqueror in advance.
Fulfillment References
Isaiah 21:13-17
Archaeological & Historical Evidence
The Babylonian Chronicle for Nebuchadnezzar's sixth year (599/598 BC) records precisely this: the king 'sent out his companies... against the Arabs, plundered their possessions, their animals and their gods in abundance.' A prophecy about camel-herders, confirmed by a cuneiform tablet's campaign log.
How Traditions Read This Prophecy
Apostolic (Oneness) PentecostalNo population is too remote for the word of God — the desert has an address in heaven's ledger too.
JewishKedar (Ishmael's son, Gen. 25:13) links the oracle to the wider account of Abraham's other line.
CatholicThe 'secure, careless' dwellers (v.31) hear the perennial warning: ease is no fortress.
ProtestantAn unfashionable, unglamorous prophecy — against tent-dwellers — fulfilled and logged by the enemy's own scribe: the corroboration no forger would bother to invent.
AcademicThe 599/598 Arabian raid entry in BM 21946 is the direct extra-biblical counterpart; 'kingdoms of Hazor' likely denotes the semi-settled desert enclosures (hazerim).
Scholarship & Sources
Babylonian Chronicle BM 21946 rev. (Wiseman); on Kedarite Arabs in Assyrian and Babylonian sources see I. Eph'al, The Ancient Arabs.
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